Blogger vs. ExpressionEngine vs. Geeklog

General Features Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Version
N/A
1.6
1.8.2
Release Date
N/A
2004-04-22 (20 years ago)
30 Dez 2012
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Google Inc.
EllisLab, Inc.
Geeklog Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
No
Yes
License
N/A
Proprietary
GNU version 2
License Cost/ Fee
0
From 0$ - 249.95$
none
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
No
Yes
Optional
Hosting Features Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Storage Quota
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
php
Operating System
N/A
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
any
Webserver
N/A
IIS, Apache
any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
PHP must have XML support
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Datastorage Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Text Files
N/A
No
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
N/A
No
Yes
Other
N/A
No
no
Anti-Spam Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Akismet Support
N/A
Plugin
No
Word Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
IP Ban List
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
User Access Features Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
Yes
No
LDAP Authentication
N/A
No
Yes
Other Authentication
N/A
No
Support Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Commercial Support
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://help.blogger.com/
http://expressionengine.com/support/
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
Books
None
None
1
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Categorization
None
Multiple
Single
Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
No
Yes
Optional
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blog API
Blogger data API
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
Post Editing Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Multi-paged posts
No
Yes
Yes
Spell Checker
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Undo
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
No
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Comment Features Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
No
Optional
No
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
No
Gravatars
No
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
None
None
Client + Server
Extended Features Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
No
Yes
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
No
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Optional
Custom Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Google Sitemap
No
Optional
Unknown
Workflow Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Content Approval
No
Yes
Yes
Versioning
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Content Import
none
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
MySQL
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
E-Mail Notifications
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
No
Web Statistics
No
Yes
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
RSS 0.9x
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Blogger ExpressionEngine Geeklog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
No
ID3-Tag Editor
No
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Media Converter
No
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
No
Yes
Unknown
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